Neither of the documents detailing the US military robot plans, for example, mentions the Geneva Convention which sets out the treatment in wartime of the sick, wounded, civilians and prisoners.
Improving the EU's ability to play a global role is one of the toughest challenges to his convention, which sets out today on its task of drawing up a constitution which defines the powers of an enlarged union of 25 or more members - and can be understood by its 500 million people.
In its Fact Sheet accompanying yesterday's executive order, the Administration announced its support for Additional Protocol II to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which "sets out humane treatment standards and fair trial guarantees".
Such frameworks have their roots in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child which sets out child-specific needs and rights [ 15].
That mandate is rooted in the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child CRCC), which sets out universal and indivisible rights.
Furthermore, the Libyans' lawyers will argue that section 7 is trumped by section 3 of the 1998 Human Rights Act – which says legislation "must be read and given effect in a way which is compatible with the [European] convention rights – and by the 2001 International Criminal Court Act, which sets out the circumstances in which individuals shall be sent to The Hague to stand trial.
If you want to know how the UK is run, the Cabinet Office has issued just the thing for you - its draft Cabinet Manual [778Kb PDF], which sets out the main laws and conventions affecting the conduct of government.
Eurosceptics suggest that a "non-paper" produced by his secretariat, which sets out some of the ideas that the convention will deal with, is in fact a draft constitution that lays the groundwork for the EU to act as a single state in foreign affairs.
The cabinet manual, which sets out the "rules of the game", must address the convention that the need for a prime minister to be in place at all times is "unambiguous", the political and constitutional reform committee said.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC is a human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children.
It has been 15 years since every nation on earth signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which set out a basic, universal standard for a healthy, protected, decent childhood for every human being.
